Bomb threats sent to polling locations in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, other swing states

Source: Scripps News

Posted 7:19 PM, Nov 05, 2024 and last updated 9:06 PM, Nov 05, 2024


Polling locations in multiple swing states were subject to bomb threats on Election Day, leading some to temporarily close down as officials investigated the reports.

Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a Tuesday night press briefing that the bomb threats called into multiple polling locations in the state posed no credible threat to the public.

And Tuesday afternoon, Georgia's Fulton County Police Chief W. Wade Yates said during a press conference that there were 32 bomb threats to various polling locations in the area, with 27 of them being cleared "very quickly." The other five prompted temporary closures of the polling locations as officials investigated the claims.

Yates said it was unclear where the threats came from at this point in the active investigation. But Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters earlier Tuesday bomb threats that the source of the bomb threats were "from Russia."

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